About Sportshall
A first taste of athletics competition…
Aviva Sportshall is a world-renowned competition format that helps young athletes to experience a variety of competitive athletics formats all year round!
A great competition focus for budding athletes
Did you know:
- Since 2009 Aviva Sportshall has also enabled schools to use the popular format to support curricular delivery.
- Aviva Sportshall events are run at local, regional and national levels across the UK.
- Aviva Sportshall brings the best of athletics into a friendly format using fun equipment that is specially designed with safety in mind.
- Aviva Sportshall is a great competition focus for budding athletes who may already have been taught by teachers using Aviva Elevating Athletics, have already taken part in Aviva Startrack and might even have already been working towards an Aviva UKA Academy Award.
- There are three Aviva Sportshall national programmes which are: Aviva Fun in Athletics for 9-11 year olds, Aviva Sportshall 'Team Challenge' for under 13s and Aviva Sportshall 'All-Rounder' for under 15s
- For more information on the competition programme please visit the Sportshall website.
An overview of the Aviva Sportshall programme
Aviva Sportshall Primary
- Includes the popular ‘Agility Challenge’ offering an element of competition in a fun team based format
- Teams can include up to 30 children and it is recommended for Years 3, 4, 5 and 6.
- Full resources to support this are available in the downloads section of the Sportshall website
Aviva Sportshall Secondary
- Builds on the Primary experience and offers ideal intra-school competition
- Includes the team based format of the Primary programme but also encourages athletes to develop individually.
- Includes individual races and the addition of shot putt
- Provides continuity and a smooth transistion for those athletes preparing for the outdoor season with standard formats available for Years 7 and 8.
- Full resources to support this are available in the downloads section of the Sportshall website
